[TriLUG] Grub configuration file

[Steven Blanchard]

Do you have the kernel-smp-2.4.20-19.9 or the kernel-2.4.20.19.9 package 
installed? for multiprocessor systems, kernel-smp is the one that 
matters. The standard kernel packages are often there too to make sure 
that the system can be booted if anything goes wrong. I've had that trip 
me up one too many times.

HTH
~Steven

Justin Johnson wrote:
> While updating my system via RHN I got a message indicating that I was
> not running the most current kernel installed on my system. So I did a
> rpm -q kernel and sure enough I have kernel-2.4.20-8  as well as kernel
> 2.4.20-19.9 installed. However my grub.conf file only shows entries for
> 2.4.20-8. 
> 
> It looks pretty simple to edit grub.conf to add the entries  for the
> newer kernel by copying and pasting 2 new sections and changing the
> references to the kernel specific files as appropriate. Unfortunately I
> have a problem with this simplistic approach. The entries for the
> 2.4.20-8 kernel have a line that contains
>   "initrd/initrd-2.4.20-8smp.img". 
> This file does exist in /boot, along with the vmlinuz-2.4.20-8smp